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PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

C. B. BALDWIN.

BQX. APPLICATION FILED AUGZQ, 1900.

CHARLES B. BALDWIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y'.V

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18` 1906.

Application filed August 29, 1900. Serial No. 28,371.

To a/ZZ whom it muy concern:

Be it known thatl, CHARLES B. BALDWIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, Kings county, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Box, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

This invention relates to boxes, and more particularly to that class of boxes intended to contain the wax-like record-cylinders used in connection with phonographs, graphophones, &c. Because of thecomposition of which such record-cylinders are made great care has to be exercised in their handling and shipping in order to prevent damage or breakage to the same and it has been the object of my invention to provide a box of cheap and simple construction in which such record-cylinders may be safely contained and supported when'not in use or when being transported without liability of damage orbreakage, j

In carrying one form of my invention into effect I provide a box formed in two sections, one section being the body of the box and the other section the cover, and provide said sections on their opposite inner end walls with a seat for receiving the opposite ends of a record-cylinder, such seats being yielding in a direction toward and away. from each other and having the form of a groove, the side walls of which latter may be caused to move toward each other and grip thev adjacent end of the record-cylinder when the sections of the boxare pushed. or forced together and to move away from each other and release the record-cylinder when the said sections'are drawn apart.

The invention also comprises othernovel features of construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter referred to in detail and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical cross-section through a box embodying my invention with a record-cylinder contained therein. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the box with the upper section or cover removed, and Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged detail views to be hereinafter referred to.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the lower section or body of the box, and 2' the upper section or removable cover. The seats forreceiving the opposite ends of a record-cylinder, one being secured within. the lower section, at fthe bottom thereof, and the other within the upper section, at the top thereof, are both of the same construction, and therefore the description of one will apply to both. These so called seats in the present instance are each formed from a single blank .of cardboard or othersimilar material, `whichis provided with a series of transverse slits 3 3 in its opposite edges, which enable vthe blank to be bent into a circular form to fit within the sections of the box and-.also enable a form or construction in` vertical cross-section to be provided, as follows: The inner and outer series of arms or sections 5, formed by the slits 3, are each glued or otherwise secured at their ends 6 to the box, and between such ends the looplike portion'of the blank is bent or formed to provide .a seatA or groove 7, which .latter is located at `a point distantfrom the side walls of the box, so as tosupport the record-cylinder away from ycontact therewith, and is also'locatedat a point distant fromthe adjacent end wall 8 of the box-section, so .as to permit of a vertically-yielding movement of the seat. The circularly-arranged side walls 9 and l0 of said seat 7 when in their normalposition, with the record-cylinder removed, both extend in outwardly-diverging directions from the bottom of the seat, the said inner wall 10, as shown in Fig. 3, having a conical form, which operates to guide and center the record-cylinder or other tubular body when beingplaced in the box.

In placing a record-cylinder in a box constructed as described the record-cylinder (indicated at 11) is rst placed in the lower section or body of the box with its lower end resting in the seat 7, and the upper section or cover 2 is then placed upon'the lower section with its seat 7 entered by the upper end of the record-cylinder. As the upper section or cover is then forced downward to its proper positionA the opposite .seats 7 7 are both caused to be moved infa direction toward the "adjacent walls of the box-sections, andthereby'cause `the side walls 9 and' 10 of the seats to be moved toward each other and engage with the opposite sides of the record-cylinder to grip and firmly hold the latter against undue lateral movement within the box. The action of the seat-walls when the record-cylinder is thus placed in position in the box is clearly shown in Fig. 3, in which the normal position of the walls when the record-cylin- IOC IIO

der is first placed in the seat is shown in full lines, and the changed or gripping position of the same when the record-cylinder is held between the seats by the forcing together of the box-sections is shown in dotted lines. With a record-cylinder held in the box in the manner described it will be obvious that the liability of damage or breakage to the same is reduced to a minimum, as while the recordcylinder is firmly held from contact with the adjacent walls of the box its seats 7 7 are suficiently yielding to cushion any undue jar to the same that might be caused in shipping: or by the dropping of the box or other similar accident.

The outer wall 9 of the seat 7 is preferably made shorter than the inner wall 10 and also diverges outwardly at a greater angle than the latter. By this construction when the side walls of the seat are brought into gripping engagement with the record-cylinder by the closing of the box the outer wall 9 will be caused to engage with the face side of the record-cylinder only adjacent to its end, as clearly shown in Figs. l and 3,y and not with the record-surfme.y

As a means to prevent the projecting ends 12 of the innerwall-sections 10 from extending outwardly beyond their normal position and overhanging the lower wallv of the seat 7, in which position they would interfere with the placing of the record-cylinder in the latter, I have connected a strip of iiexible material 13 to the rear side of said wall-sections, as shown in Fig. 4, which gure is a detail view showing the upper loop end of the' wallsections broken away and the said flexible strip in position. This strip is of such length between the wall-sections as to only permit of the upper ends of the latter beingy moved forward sufficiently far to engage' with the record-cylinder, and being flexible and preferably formed with a plait between each wallsection the strip readily permits the' return movement of the latter to their normall backwardly-incline'd position when the recordcylinder is removed from thel box.

In further explanation of my invention, as pointedout in the last appended claim, the body portion l of the box consists of a tubularr casing the end closures of which arel of resilient non-metallic sheet material having central parts bent inwardly to form substantially conicalf'centering and seating surfaces for the ends ofthe record-cylinder or other tubular body placed in the box, the extent of inward bend of said closures being sufiicient to cause the same to bear resi'liently against the ends of the said tubular body when the end closures are in closed position.

Having thus illustrated and described a practical embodiment of my invention, I do not wish to be understood as confining myself to the particular details of construction or combinations of parts as set forth, as the same may be more or less materially modified without departure from the spirit offmy invention, for l What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1.' A box provided with a seat therein comprising two' side walls and an integral intermediate connecting one, the said sidel walls supporting the intermediate one in a yielding position away fromcontact with the box and one of the same being formed to project above the said intermediate one, for thev purpose set forth. y

2. A box provided with a seat therein comprising two side wall` and an integral intermediate connecting one, the said side walls supporting the intermediate one in a yielding position away from contact with the adjacent end of the boxV and being formed to project above the' same' whereby a recessed seat is formed, for the purpose set forth.

3. A box of the character described, comprising two sections adaptedl to close upon each other and being provided on their op osite' end' walls with a yielding seathaving aterally-movable side walls, and means for limiting thel movement of one of said walls.

4. A box of the' character described, comprising two sections adapted to close upon each otherand being provided on their opposite end walls with a yielding seat to support a record-cylinder' therebetween, and means integral with said seat for preventing lateral displacement of the record-cylinder therefrom.

5. A box for containing a tubular body, comprising a tubular casing,- closures of resilient non-metallic sheet material for the ends thereof,- -having their central portions vbent inwardly tov form substantially conical centering and seating surfaces for the ends of said tubular body, the extent of inwardl bend of said closures being sufficient toV cause the same to' bear resifliently against the ends of the said bod-y when the closures are in closed position.

CHARLES' B. BALDWIN.

Witnesses:

CnAs. F. DANE, H. E. DANE.

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